Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding IdealYale University Press, 1 ott 2008 - 288 pagine Religious toleration is enshrined as an ideal in our Constitution, but religious diversity has had a complicated history in the United States. Although Americans have taken justifiable pride in the rich array of religious faiths that help define our nation, for two centuries we have been grappling with the question of how we can coexist. In this ambitious reappraisal of American religious history, William Hutchison chronicles the country’s struggle to fulfill the promise of its founding ideals. In 1800 the United States was an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. Over the next two centuries, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others would emerge to challenge the Protestant mainstream. Although their demands were often met with resistance, Hutchison demonstrates that as a result of these conflicts we have expanded our understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. No longer satisfied with mere legal toleration, we now expect that all religious groups will share in creating our national agenda. This book offers a groundbreaking and timely history of our efforts to become one nation under multiple gods. |
Dall'interno del libro
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Pagina 7
... live up to its stated pluralist ideals tend to turn a hallowed American success story into the chronicling of a persistent American failure . Whether or not we embrace that degree of negativism , it seems in order to ask why early ...
... live up to its stated pluralist ideals tend to turn a hallowed American success story into the chronicling of a persistent American failure . Whether or not we embrace that degree of negativism , it seems in order to ask why early ...
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... live up to , there are ample reasons , in a case like the one before us , for modesty about cur- rent accomplishments , plus a large dollop of understanding about past failures . If “ we are all multiculturalists now , " as the ...
... live up to , there are ample reasons , in a case like the one before us , for modesty about cur- rent accomplishments , plus a large dollop of understanding about past failures . If “ we are all multiculturalists now , " as the ...
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... live their daily lives , such problems had no reality . For them , at least , " persecution , religious pride , the love of contradiction , " and other forms of intolerance that " the world commonly calls religion " had been left behind ...
... live their daily lives , such problems had no reality . For them , at least , " persecution , religious pride , the love of contradiction , " and other forms of intolerance that " the world commonly calls religion " had been left behind ...
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... lives as well . Was all of this not religious diversity ? It was . Most historians today , amused or not , continue to think that the sectarian battles of the colonial era , and especially the trials and tri- umphs of an Anne Hutchinson ...
... lives as well . Was all of this not religious diversity ? It was . Most historians today , amused or not , continue to think that the sectarian battles of the colonial era , and especially the trials and tri- umphs of an Anne Hutchinson ...
Pagina 35
... . Before the appointed time , many thousands had heard the message , or Lives of Great Americans . Published Monthly . Numb ***. THE TEASING OF THE HERETICS Young's wives in mourning . Cartoon by J. Keppler in. Just Behave Yourself 35.
... . Before the appointed time , many thousands had heard the message , or Lives of Great Americans . Published Monthly . Numb ***. THE TEASING OF THE HERETICS Young's wives in mourning . Cartoon by J. Keppler in. Just Behave Yourself 35.
Sommario
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The Protestant Establishment as a Unifying Force | 59 |
Adjustments Within the Establishment | 84 |
Pluralism as Inclusion | 111 |
The Establishment Under Stress in the Early Twentieth Century | 139 |
Early Assaults on the Melting Pot Ideal | 170 |
New Mainstream Gropings Toward a New Pluralism | 196 |
9 Whose America Is It Anyway? The Sixties and After | 219 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 263 |
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